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Humanic leverages OSC cycles, storage to study LHC data

“Simulated data via ALICE Physics Data Challenges have been used to test the ALICE GRID computing environment at computing centers in Europe and at OSC.”

-Thomas Humanic, The Ohio State University

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Total Sim

As your Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) design team, Total Sim takes innovative design ideas from initial concept to high-performance reality.

Total Sim delivers innovative consulting, development, training, installation and support using leading edge OPEN and commerical tools.

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Simulations help steer streamliner toward 400-mph goal

A team of engineering students at Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research recently began running aerodynamics simulations, one of the first steps in the complex process of developing another record-breaking, alternative-fuel streamliner.

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Kinect Pathology Viewer

The Research Informatics Core and the Biomedical Imaging Team at the Research Institute at The Nationwide Children's Hospital, have created an interactive digital pathology system intended to revolutionize how physicians, pathologists and scientists interact to diagnose disease.

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Alliance for High Performance Digital Manufacturing

AHMPM is a cross-industry collaborative organization dedicated to changing the way America manufactures by bringing the power of high performance computing to the value chain.

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Blue Collar Computing: Lessons Learned

As early as 2004, we at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) believed that the HPC market was heavily focused on "Grand Challenge" problems and missing a huge opportunity in the "HPC for the rest of us" segment.

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OSU's Department of Biomedical Informatics

The Ohio State University Department of Biomedical Informatics is to be the worldwide leader in discovering, creating, and applying leading-edge biomedical informatics innovations to improve individuals' lives through personalized healthcare.

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OSC's Summer Institute

Described as "a two-week boot camp for the brain" by a participating teacher, OSC's Summer Institute is a residential program that gives gifted Ohio high school students access to some the world's most powerful supercomputers.

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Olivucci assesses potential of bacterial photoreceptors

Blue-green algae are causing havoc in lakes saturated with agricultural run-off, but Bowling Green State University's Massimo Olivucci is studying how to harness the positive properties of a related strain of bacteria – Anabaena.

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Jana investigates the industrial potential of carbon nanotubes

University of Akron's Sadhan Jana is studying the great potential of carbon nanotubes in applications involving aerospace/naval materials, nano-electrical products, optical devices, chemical sensors and more.

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Lacks seeks better understanding of disordered systems

“We are conducting ... simulations that impose a step change in strain on a polystyrene material and then monitor the time dependence of the relevant stress.”

-Daniel Lacks, Case Western Reserve University

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Lamb analyzes evolutionary history of enzyme group

A group of enzymes implicated in a wide range of human diseases are targets of a study by Ohio State's Rebecca Lamb to more fully understand the enzymes by helping to better define the group's family tree.

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Li leverages fragment-based drug design to fight cancer

An electrostatic representation created by Ohio State’s Chenglong Li illustrates proteins he is investigating that could help block the immune-response messenger IL-6 (pink ribbon), which is related to cancer when overproduced.

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Nimbis Services

Nimbis pre-negotiates volume-priced contracts with DAC (also called HPC) vendors so that Nimbis, through its branded service, can provide easy, affordable, reliable "pay-as-you-go" access to compute cycles, third-party software and expertise.

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The Ohio State University

As Ohio's best and one of the nation's top-20 public universities, Ohio State University is recognized by a top-rated academic medical center and a premier cancer hospital and research center.

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Amar speeds computer simulations of thin film growth

Thin films are used to create semiconductors, optical coatings, pharmaceuticals and solar cells. Jacques Amar, University of Toledo, accelerates some of the complex computer calculations used to simulate micro-thin material formation.

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Trivedi analyzes thin film superconductor-insulator transition

Nandini Trivedi’s Ohio State team is investigating quantum and thermal phase fluctuations of superconductors, calculating frequency-dependent quantities and measuring local and/or dynamical quantities.

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Panda team designing library to raise HPC efficiency, performance

Ohio State's Dhabaleswar Panda leads a team that is co-designing the MVAPICH2 MPI library with the underlying InfiniBand communication network and end applications to improve the efficiency and performance of an HPC system.

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Bartlett seeks key to specific-language impairments

“We work together to understand how DNA data and analysis from my group can be understood in the context of language difficulties.”

-Christopher Bartlett, Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University

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Bonakdarian shows evolutionary approach yields flexibility

A recently developed, evolutionary computation approach offers an alternative search for models that can best explain experimental data derived from applications such as economics, according to Franklin University's Esmail Bonakdarian.

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OSC provides foundation for surveillance research

The Center for Surveillance Research, an NSF Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center, is a collaborative effort by academia, government and industry to conduct pre-competitive research and student training.

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Chen improving turbomachinery simulation software

“Our goal is to develop a reliable prediction technology to help improve turbomachinery component design.”

-Jen-Ping Chen, The Ohio State University.

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Durand augments depth readings with data assimilation

To address unknown river depth need for NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, Durand is accessing OSC computational resources to test strategies for estimating the unknown bathymetry of the Ohio River basin.

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Proton transfer modeling to improve fuel cell performance

Research led by Joel Fried, University of Dayton, leveraged Ohio Supercomputer Center resources to investigate the potential of PEMs that use phosphoric acid (PA) to dope polybenzimid-azole (PBI) for improved fuel cell performance.

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Gudmundsdottir studying PRPG photorelease

One of Anna Gudmundsdottir’s latest UC research projects seeks to form reactive intermediate compounds, such as triplet 1,2-biradicals, and use them to release alcohols from PRPGs, as well as to form triplet vinyl nitrenes.

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Hadad developing reagent solution to nerve agent exposure

Ohio State's Christopher Hadad is studying compounds that return an appropriate alkyl group to an aged nerve agent/AChE molecule, thus allowing treatment with oximes to provide for complete recovery from nerve agent exposure.

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  • Ohio’s bioscience researchers are gathering and analyzing vast amounts of genetic, molecular and environmental data to target diagnosis and treatment of disease, improve understanding of intricate systems and optimize valuable biological traits.

  • Ohio’s world-class polymer and advanced materials industries have long driven the state’s economy, employing more than 81,000 people, according to the Ohio Department of Development.

  • The solutions to significant, interrelated global energy and environmental sustainability issues will significantly increase the demand for computational modeling, simulation and analysis.

  • Ohio’s strengths in basic and applied research are broad and deep, spanning a multitude of academic, business and industrial interests.